pretjerati

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• prèterati (Ekavian)

Etymology

From pre- +‎ tjerati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prětjerati/
• Hyphenation: pre‧tje‧ra‧ti

Verb

prètjerati pf (Cyrillic spelling прѐтјерати)

1. (transitive) to drive across
2. (intransitive) to go too far
3. (intransitive) to exaggerate

Conjugation

Conjugation of pretjerati

Infinitive: pretjerati		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: prètjerāvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		pretjeram	pretjeraš	pretjera	pretjeramo	pretjerate	pretjeraju
Future	Future I	pretjerat ću1 pretjeraću	pretjerat ćeš1 pretjeraćeš	pretjerat će1 pretjeraće	pretjerat ćemo1 pretjeraćemo	pretjerat ćete1 pretjeraćete	pretjerat će1 pretjeraće
	Future II	bȕdēm pretjerao2	bȕdēš pretjerao2	bȕdē pretjerao2	bȕdēmo pretjerali2	bȕdēte pretjerali2	bȕdū pretjerali2
Past	Perfect	pretjerao sam2	pretjerao si2	pretjerao je2	pretjerali smo2	pretjerali ste2	pretjerali su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam pretjerao2	bȉo si pretjerao2	bȉo je pretjerao2	bíli smo pretjerali2	bíli ste pretjerali2	bíli su pretjerali2
	Aorist	pretjerah	pretjera	pretjera	pretjerasmo	pretjeraste	pretjeraše
Conditional I		pretjerao bih2	pretjerao bi2	pretjerao bi2	pretjerali bismo2	pretjerali biste2	pretjerali bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih pretjerao2	bȉo bi pretjerao2	bȉo bi pretjerao2	bíli bismo pretjerali2	bíli biste pretjerali2	bíli bi pretjerali2
Imperative		—	pretjeraj	—	pretjerajmo	pretjerajte	—
Active past participle		pretjerao m / pretjerala f / pretjeralo n			pretjerali m / pretjerale f / pretjerala n
1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. 2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. 3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. 4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.   *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

• pretjerívati impf